Vacuum massaging-machine.



0. 3. RIDER. VACUUM MASSAGING MACHINE.

APPLICATION IILED'AUG. 12, 1908.

Patented July 27, 1909.

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APPLICATION FILED-AUG. 12,,1908.

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CHARLES B. RIDER, OF OCEAN CITY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO SAMUEL H. HANN, OF CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY.

VACUUM MASSAGING-MACHINE.

V Specification of Letters Patent;

Application filed August 12,

Patented July 27, 1909.

1908. Serial No. 48,113.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEs B. RIDER, citizen of the United States, residing at Ocean-City, county of Cape May, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vacuum l\lassaging ldachines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification. 7

My invention relates generally to massag ing machines and particularly to that type thereof operating by vacuum or suction; and it has for its object to provide a device of simple construction, in. which the vacuum or suction is produced by a flow of water through a vacuum tube constituting a portion of the instrument, wherein also there is supplied a supplemental water tube in which, after creation of the suction, a portion of the water flow is led to the operating cup to intermittently reduce or break the vacuum the massaged part.

A further object is the construction of the elements and their combination in such manner that the concrete device is adapted to be detachably applied to any ordinary washstand bib or faucet.

' To these ends my invention consists of the apparatus hereinafter described, the novel and identifying features of which are pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accomplmying drawings illustrating a machine constructed according to my invention, Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in aratus, in its best form,the vacuum tubelabeing in section on the line 1-2 of Fig. 2 which is a central vertical section, taken longitudinally, of the vacuumtubc oi the apparatus. F i 3 is a side elevation, illustrating-particnlcr y a side view of the vacuum-tube shown detachably attached to a water-supplying bib; Fig. 4 is an elevation, partly in section, of a modified form of the apparatus, wherein the supplemental wishing tube is not employed; and also ilhistrutes the applicability of different forms of massage cups to the instrument.

Referring now to said drawings in'which similar letters of reference refer to like parts bib or faucet, and X the vacuum tube element of my device, which may be operatively and rcmovablysup orted on the bib bymea-nsv of its screvwthrca ed end, indicated at b dotted lines Fig. 3, and in section lines in Fig. 2.

The vacuum-tube X is preferably constructed as a single casting and consists of the inlet tube 0, operating as an injector-nozzle, and which is c'e'ntrally disposed within a tube d of greater length, of larger diameter, so as to form between them an annular chamher, and tapering to a smaller. diameter toward its discharge end, and which is preferably curved at the extremity as shown in Fig. 2, so as to discharge into the Washstand, and to insure this, without a splashing eiie'ct,

I prefer to add adperforated cap 65 carrying to admit the passage, through both tubes, .of the tubular screw 11/ leading downward,

through a petcock 7c to a supplemental Watertube c, which operates as a supplemental Water discharge and is preferably a flexible tube in order that for a short distance intermediate its length, as at 6 it may be brought into parallelism with the air-exhaust tube ":72,

about to be described, and so held by means,

for example, of a clamping band 6 This flexible tube c at its other end is secured to one end of a short rigid tube e mounted on the wall of the cup g, the said tube having an intermediate valve '12, and the latter is preferably constructed as a spring-controlled thumbwalve, in order that it may be in a normally closed position relatively to the tube 6 which it governs. The walls of the cup 9 are preferably curved and the tube e so mounted thereon that the entering Water will naturally follow the curvature of the Wall of the chamber g.

The construction of thevaicuum tube X is such as to provide an annular exhaust chamber 0 between the interior wall of the tube d and the exterior periphery of the contained injector tube 0, and in t e region of, this chamber c the outer tube (1 is tapped as at 0; (see Fig. 3) to admit one end of the rigid tube m (see Fig. l) which is provided intermediate its length with a petcocli f, the other end of the tube m communlcating with the tubular connecting handle 6 of a massaging or other-o crating cup by means of an intermediate flexible to em. Any form of such cup which presents a It is further ta ped at 9'75 chambered interior and a rim adapted to rest closely upon any portion of the human body, may be em loyed. One form of this g up is shown in Mg. 1 and another form in Tieferring again to the supplemental water-tube c, (Fig. 1), it will be observed that its spring-controlled thumb valve n is shown as consisting preferably of an ordinary valve casing n whose port is governed by a plug 8 having on its projecting end an operating thumb-piece s and with its rear end held to its seat by a spring 8, shown in dotted lines, whereby the valve port is normally closed, and the petcock 7c on tubular screw a" may be turned to either open or'closed position, hence the said cock 70 may be closed and the tubes detached temporarily therefrom, and the tube 6 then employed to eject a fluid medicament through it into the operating cup 9, if desired, by thumb control of its valve '11 after and supplemental to its use as a vacuum massaging cup; but the principal functions of the supplemental water-tube e are that it may be used, with great advantage, inwashing the surface of the part massaged, by closing, in whole or in part, the pctcockf in the exhaust tube m", and opening the cock Z? leading to the injector nozzle.

rioflts other function is that of producing a'spe cial character of massagirn action, without moving the cup, namely, by means of the spring-controlled thumb-valve n in the su plemental or wash-tube e, the latter can e utilized to cause the pressure to be made in termittent in the operating cup, so as to produce a successive series of pulling and releasing actions on the skin under the cup, if such form of massage is for any reason desired. Indeed, the flow ol the fluid through the supplemental water-tube 6, may be governed to a nicety by the sensitive thumbvalve '71-, and employed instantly to temporarily reduce the vacuum pressure in the cup g at any moment, when desired, and intermittently if desired. The pressure gage m, attached directly to the vacuum-tube i at a point It in its external peripheral wall opening directly into the annular exhaust-chamher 0 (into which annular chamber, water never enters), Wlll be sensitively actuated to show the actual approximate to a vacuum below atmospheric pressure within the operating cup.

The operation of the device may be briefly stated as follows: The apparatus being attached, by the screwthroaded inlet end I) of the vacuum tube (1 to a washstand bib, as indicated in Fig. 3, the flow of water passing through the tube X will discharge into the washstand, and on its passage create a suction or exhaust of air in its annular chamber 0, and in the connected exhaust tubes m and m, and in the operating cup g to which flexible tube m is attached. For a massageaila ing and cleaning instrument for the human body, the operating or suction cup is manually movable, with rubbing pressure it need be, over the parts of the human body to be treated, and the supplemental water-tube is adapted as well for washing urposes as stated, as also to control atal times the vacuum or exhaust pressure within the operating cup during its use.

The apparatus is effective, is simple in construction, compact and having no -parts liable to get out of order, and may be removably attached to the water supply of an ordinary Washstand.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent j 1. The combination with a vacuum cup and connecting tubular means, of a vacuum device adapted to be operated in a horizontal position and consisting of a tubular casing having a tapering and downwardly curved discharge end, an injector .nozzle of lesser diameter supported conceiitrically within and'iu spaced relation to the air-chamt er of said casing, providing an annular air-chamber surrounding the nozzle, said nozzle projecting through the inlet end of the casing and provided at said projecting end with means to detachably couple the device to a fixed source of water supply.

2. An apparatus of the character recited comprising in combination a vacuum-tube provided with means to cause a flow of water through its injector nozzle, said vacuum tube comprising a tubular casing and an injector nozzle mounted-in spaced relation therein and forming an annular chamber surrounding said injector nozzle, peripheral openings in said casing, a valve-controlled air-tube communicating through one of said openings with the annular air-exhaust chamber of the vacuum-tube, a flexible tube communicating with said air-tube, a. chambered-cup mounted on the free end of said flexible tube, and supplemental valvecontrolled tubular means between said cup and the interior of the injector nozzle of the vacuum tube.

3. An apparatus of the charactcrrecited comprising a vacuum-tube adapted to be coupled by the inlet end of its injector nozzle to a source'of water supply, tubular means leading from the interior of a chambered cup and communicating with the annular chamher in the vacuum tube surrounding its injector nozzle, an air-pressure indicator communicating with said annular air-exhaust chamber of the vacuum-tube, saidchambered cup, bere-dcup and the vacuum-tube adapted to control the vacuum pressure in said cup.

4. In apparatus of the character-recited, comprising a vacuum-tube consisting of an injector nozzle and a casing therefor providing an annular exhaust chamber surrounding said nozzle, means to couple the inlet end of and having a pet-cock 7c, and a removably the injector nozzle to a source of water supmounted flexible tube e between said valve ply, a chambered cup, valve-controlled tuand cock.

bular means between said cup and the ex- In testimony whereof, I have hereunto 15 5 haust chamber of the vacuum tube, and sup affixed my signature this 30th day of July 'plemental tubular means between the said A. D. 1908. v

cup and the interior of the injector nozzle, {)HARLES B RIDER consisting of a rigid tube 6 mounted on said l chambered cup and having a spring-con- Witnesses:

1o trolled thumb-valve n, a tubular screw it A. M. BIDDLE,

leading to the interior of the injector nozzle R. A. DUNLAP. 

